david052

Always fancied owning one myself, actually.

It has a bit of a DUKW flavor to it , the cab as viewed from below and to the side , only the DUKW on that side would have a grill visible not a solid cover ??

That was my thought too.

Blooming well done indeed - just goes to show the power of a bit of planning and a ton of teamwork. Though I'm not sure I would be the one sitting on the winch wire as you heave on the Tirfor to pull it out!

G Coy? Oh dear...

8 1/2"? That might work - will give it a measure at the weekend - cheers!

Hi

I am looking to remove the alternator from my CVRT for cleaning and repainting, and to get rid some of the accumulated grease underneath it. It seems to have a 1/2" allen headed socket buried underneath it - does anyone know where I can get a really loooong allen key from?

Cheers

David

There are some Bedford MWR radio truck parts for sale on Ebay at the moment - don't know if there is any commanality there?

I've got a generator for one of these - I don't suppose you have any manuals or anything like that at all? Also it is missing the plate on the pullstart (?) and the wooden box cover...

Cheers

You could practically tow the first one away right now! Amazing!

I stand corrected, it's a 434. I've no idea if it's still there, I've not been up there for years. Certainly it had a lot of good spares still attatched. Anyone on here near Stirling fancy nipping up and see if it's still there?

 

It has a crane, but I don't know if it's a REME one.

PM me the details and I'll see what I can do.

Cheers

Just started the restoration of the new addition to my collection, an Abbot FV433.

Mainly cosmetic and electrical jobs to do, so not on the grand scale of some restorations others are working on, but still keeping me busy after work and at weekends!

 

I have started a website to follow the work (http://www.fv433.co.uk), too many pictures to do it as a forum post!

Will post any interesting bits on here as I come across them.

 

If anyone has any spares for an Abbot, I need quite a few bits, including:

Firewire control box, engine control switchboard, fuse tins and some stowage mounts/racks.

I picked up a Firewire control box on fleabay recently, so the seller may have more?

Looks to be the pouch for the antenna sections that clips to the side of an A41 manpack. My first introduction to platoon comms!

Cheers!

If you want to land planes on it (?!) then you are better off with Class 60 trackway, which is designed for that role. Comes in a nice big roll which you can roll up again afterwards.

I'm sure I've seen it in the background of a photo of a surplus dealer somewhere - now where was that?

You could have a look at pics for the LAAT version - my Ford F60S is pretty similar.

I heard a theory that when, in the mid-90s, some arms reduction was required, NATO needed to reduce the number of "tanks with main armament in the range 75mm - 105mm". Having already decided to sunset Scorpion on account of the carbon monoxide emissions during firing, it was a simple trick to designate Scorpion a tank and then scrap it. RESULT!

 

But to those of us who gave life blood to Scorpions, it was NEVER a tank. END OF.

When I was in we had to occaisonally have our CVRTs counted by the Russkis under the SALT agreement, I think it was, under a particular Op name that escapes me at the moment, and they were only Sultans, yet they were classed as armour, so...

So where did you find it, how long have you had it, do you have all the parts needed? Tell more!

inspired by snappers photos, I went to a couple of cemetrys near me today,

Why would two named personnel be buried in the same grave?

This might be a naive question, but working in the oil and gas industry I buy anodes for offshore pipelines, and there we use zinc (?) based sacrificial anodes. Is that something that could be used here, or is it too slow a process for your needs?

"That completed the main parts, all that was left was finishing."

Understatement of the year!

He must have been, with that guide walking backwards across a low loader deck, only a few feet in front of the tank . . .

 

Hanno

My thoughts exactly! Where is his escape route if it all goes wrong suddenly? Biiiiiig steps would be needed, as in the old saw, 'what steps would you take in case of emergency?'. Interesting though, 'elf and safety is becoming embedded in this business.

Looks almost ready to go / show!

Moving back in time from your usual interests?! Good luck - I'm sure it will be a fine looking vehicle when it is finished. What else does the former owner have - I noticed a 110 in the pics and the back of another vehicle? I think it is amazing that we are still finding these things.

Specopcaptain PM sent.

Rgds

Thanks for the link.

Yes, in an ideal world simply connecting it up and pressing the 'launch' button would be the way forward, but at the moment it is sitting in the shed outside my house and the CVRT is 25 miles up the road... Plan B is called for!

As the fuel pump on my CVRT was submerged underwater for goodness knows how long it strikes me that I need to test it before reinstalling all the fittings around and about it. It has positive and negative obviously, but also a suppressor of some sort. Is it simply a case of hooking it up to a battery and seeing if it whirrs, or is there more to it than that (I'm sure there is!)? A search on the Net would indicate that also I need to consider how much it can actually pump as well, but I am slightly reluctant to hook it up to a jerrycan, 'elf and safety and all that... What is my best option? I recall seeing new ones as well on the net, but couldn't find them again when I went searching.

Cheers!